Encounters With Alphonso Lingis

by Hooke, Alexander E.; Fuchs, Wolfgang W.; Altizer, Thomas J.; Casey, Edward; Dumm, Thomas L.; Grosz, Elizabeth; Karnos, David; Krell, David Farrell; Lingis, Alphonso; Majer, Gerald; McLane, Janice; Nancy, Jean-Luc; Zournazi, Mary

• ISBN13: 9780739107010
• ISBN10: 0739107011
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-07
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Encounters with Alphonso Lingis is the first extensive study of this American philosopher who is gaining an international reputation to augment his national one. The distinguished contributors to this volume address most of the central themes found in Lingis's writings--including singularity and otherness, death and eroticism, emotions and rationality, embodiment and the face, excess and the sacred. The book closes with a new essay by Lingis himself.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Section I: LOCATING LINGIS IN TRADITIONS OF THOUGHT
Far from the Pallid Float	3	(16)
David Farrell Krell
Seeing the Named, Naming the Seen: Relations to the Tradition	19	(16)
Wolfgang W. Fuchs
Reflections Since Dangerous Emotions: Interview with Alphonso Lingis, 2002	35	(8)
Alexander E. Hooke
Wolfgang W. Fuchs
The Sacred Vision of a Solitary Voyager	43	(8)
Thomas J. Altizer
Encounter the World, Keep a Clear Eye	51	(12)
Janice McLane
Silent Communities: Foucault and Lingis on the End of Philosophy	63	(20)
Alexander E. Hooke
Foreign Bodies: Interview with Alphonso Lingis (1996)	83	(18)
Mary Zournazi
Section II: DEPARTURES: SINGULAR AND COMMON REALITIES
Limits, Borders, and Shores of Singularity	101	(8)
Jean-Luc Nancy
Dream of a Blind Sculptress	109	(10)
Gerald Majer
Naked	119	(14)
Elizabeth Grosz
There Is Always Another Island	133	(14)
David Karnos
Mapping the Earth Otherwise	147	(18)
Edward Casey
Grief Suspended: Lingis, Cavell, Emerson	165	(10)
Thomas L. Dumm
Section III: THE RETURN HOME
Trust	175	(12)
Alphonso Lingis
Bibliography	187	(14)
Index	201	(4)
Contributors	205